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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1903)
K 8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February 2?, 1903 ll . ,,i .i. GREATEST TRIUMPH OF THE INVENTOR. Simplex Typesetting Machine Installed "The Miner" Office-Does the Work of Four Men-Business Demands It in Last wwuk tlioru wuh installed in TUB MINKR olllco h Simplex typo netting machine. Tho addition of thlH now and oxpousivo niiichlnory in necessary to innru fully moot tho re quirements for publishing 11 news paper such as tho ontorprlso and progress! voiiosh of thlH community omamlH. Tho largest poiwiblo amount of uowh nmttor must bo hand 1 il and hand composition 1h Iw coming too hIow in this rushing ago. With tho aid of tho Slinplox, it will not only bo poHriiwblo to handlo a larger amount of iiowh, but do it ourilor and bottor. Readers of this papor aro invltod to call at IIiIh otllco any tlmo during tho day and witnoss tho operation of tho uiaohliio. Iloliovliig our frlondri will ho iiitoroHlod In knowing some thing of IIiIh lino pioi'oof mochiiulsin, is mado to sot. Tlio Simplex typesetter lines the Hame kind of typo oa ia set by hand, flxcept that each Individual typo has a aeparato combination of "nicks" or notches cut on the odgo, and on this fact Is basod the fundamental principle of tho machine. To distribute tho typo in tho first place, tho chaunols of tho upper cylaludor aro llllod with "dead matter" (typo that has boon usod) and is revolved stop by stop. At each step or inovemont of tho distri butor cylinder, tho bottom typo of each lino of dead matter ia tested by tho wards or chaunols of tho lower cylinder, Until it finds ouo oxactly correspond! uk and drops down into tho lower umgaKino. Tho lowor cylinder is stationary, and at tho bottom of each channel it contains a there is presented herewith a out of the Simplex, and a description which will enable anyone to understand Its working. The body of the Simplex consists of two cylinders, one almve and ro tating on the other, having a com moil axis. In both cylinders, ex tending vertically their full length, are ninety parallel channels, those iu the lower cylinder form I uk tho mag azine into which typo distributes from tho channels of the upper cylin der and is stored for resetting. Tho channels aro slightly wider than the bddy of tho typo which tho machine -... lever which Is connected with a key hoard similar to that of a typewriter, When a character ou tho keyboard Is pressed down tho leavor releases the corresponding charator from the channel and deposits It on a rapidly moving disc which carries it around tho machine and to a "packer" which packs the letters into a ltuo in ttyelr proper order, or, to use a printer's phraae, "standing on their feet." A 16iir lino of type rapidly forms iu front of tho operator, aud j when ho has enough for his purpose ho whirls his chair aroudn, and with a small instrument called a "grab," separates enough from the long line to mako enough from tho measure he ia setting. This ho juatifloa or "spaces," and then takes another line and so on. When two persona are working at the same time, one operates tho keyboard and the other does tho spacing. As soon aa one line 1b spaced it ia automatically puahed back to make room for an other and at the same time the mat ter ia leaded, if so desired. After the machine la once In oper ation all that ia necessary in the way of diatributing ia to place a galley of dead type on the aide of the upper cylinder . prepared for it. It does the work perfectly, and while it ia apparently simple, it would be impossible to explain the matter in telligently, ao we wont try, but again invite you to come and seo for your self. The Simplex la small and compact, weighing about 1800 pounds and oc cupying no more floor space than an ordinary coal stove. It ia probable that on no labor saving machine haa more time and money been expended than on a de- vlco to set and dlstrlbuto typo. For over a century inventors have strug gled with the question, and while their offorts were partially successful, it haa boon only in tho past ton years that a practical machiuo haa boon put on tho marko. It seoma like an impossibility that auy combina tion of machinery other than that oncompassod in tho human body could separate nearly a hundred characters, pick thorn up again, form thorn into words, combiuo tho words Into sentences, aud placo them in readiness for that older but nono tho loss marvelous result of brains tho modern printing press. Tho Simplex does it though, and does it four or live times as fast aa tho most rapid compositor. Aldod by this machiuo THE MINER is now prepared to turn out job printing, in which thoro is any considerable amount of typesetting, such as circulars, folders, prospect uses and tho like, at a vory much loss cost than this class of work has ovor boforo boon douo lu oustorn Ore gon. It cau also lo douomoro rapid ly, and the work delivered sooner than ia possible where hand composition is employed. Nor should the work done by the Simplex be confused with the unfinished appearance, almost defective printing turned out by machines that cast its own type. Simplex typesetting is as perfect as that done by the most artistic com-Doaltor. Come and "see the wheels go ronnd." The celebrated Gund's "the beer of good cheer" always on draught at Dun phy'a The Club. CRACKER ORECON 60LC0NDA CONSOLIDATED CRACKER SUMMIT NORTH POLE and CRACKER EAGLE Stockholders will learn some thing to their advantage it they will address ar. once, A. M. L., Room 018, 11 Broadway, New York City. To Mini OwnirsaiidProspeotors If you have a meritorious mine or prospect, and are not yourself a capitalist, you can, by co-operating with others similarly situated, soil your property iu half the time and for double the money that you could get by your individual efforts. 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